50 easy 3-ingredient breakfasts

My wife will tell you: I’m no morning person. The period of time between my alarm going off and that first cup of coffee is pretty much a fuzzy-headed blur for me. I love “snooze-surfing”—riding those 9 glorious minutes of sleep between alarms going off on my clock radio. Simply put: I’m not exactly at my shining best before 8 in the morning.

Still, I find time to eat breakfast every day. For many people like me—people who would just as soon stay up all night as try to wake up at 6 a.m.—this seems pretty amazing. “I just don’t have time,” they say.

I know exactly what they mean. The idea of a healthy breakfast has been so fetishized in our culture—“The most important meal of the day,” people say—that it seems like it must be difficult to achieve. When cereal commercials show a spread breakfast table, there are usually fresh fruits, pancakes, bowls of nuts, bacon and maybe a couple of eggs thrown in for good measure. Who has the time?

I’m here to tell you: You do. A healthy breakfast doesn’t have to be a big production. In fact, you can throw one together using just three ingredients from your cupboard. To prove this point, EatingWell asked members of our online community to name a few of their favorite 3-ingredient breakfasts. We got 50 responses from breakfast lovers. Here they are, for your breakfast inspiration. As always, we don’t count essentials like oil, salt, pepper and coffee in our list of ingredients.